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Switzerland Mulls Legalising Recreational Cannabis

Cannabis can currently only be purchased legally in the wealthy Alpine nation for medical use (Credit: AFP)

Switzerland will consider legalising recreational cannabis use, after a parliamentary commission on Friday proposed a law that would allow regulated sale and access.

The draft proposal adopted by the lower house of parliament's health commission, with 14 votes in favour, nine against and two abstentions, called for adults to be "accorded a strictly regulated access to cannabis".

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